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Management of Basic Research and Development: Lessons from the Australian Experience

HANSON, DALLAS; STEEN, JOHN; O'DONOHUE, WAYNE - In: Prometheus 17 (1999) 2, pp. 187-197

quantitative approach to research management is counter-productive to innovation. A range of ideas is used in developing a more …

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The Web of Technology and People: Challenges for Economic and Social Research

DUTTON, WILLIAM - In: Prometheus 17 (1999) 1, pp. 5-20

part of the world often knowing little about work underway elsewhere. The world-wide push for technological innovation … the coming digital age, or biotech century, and trends in technological innovation and related research and development (R …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009188758

Innovation and the Patent Attorney

MACDONALD, STUART; LEFANG, BERNARD - In: Prometheus 15 (1997) 3, pp. 329-343

quantifiable—innovation, and the competitiveness that is assumed to spring from innovation—on the grounds that these, too, are … outputs of research. The part that patents actually play in innovation has become confused with their representational role … the patent attorney in innovation would seem to be a reasonable measure of the intensification of the patent-innovation …

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ICT and Australia's Productivity Growth: Understanding the Relationship

Anderssen, Harvey - In: Prometheus 24 (2006) 2, pp. 189-212

This paper explores how information and communication technology has influenced Australia's productivity performance in the 1990s, drawing on research undertaken by the Australian Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. The research uses four different approaches to...

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Fostering Multidisciplinary Engagement: Communication Challenges for Social Research on Emerging Digital Technologies

Dutton, William; Carusi, Annamaria; Peltu, Malcolm - In: Prometheus 24 (2006) 2, pp. 129-149

There is wide agreement on the value of multidisciplinary social research related to information and communication technologies. This paper provides insights into the dynamics at play in these studies, drawing on an in-depth analysis of exchanges among an international group of experts from many...

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Reluctance to Innovate: A Case Study of the Titanium Dioxide Industry

HANSON, DALLAS; STEEN, JOHN; LIESCH, PETER - In: Prometheus 15 (1997) 3, pp. 345-356

which focus solely on economic considerations and innovation difficulties are discussed, but it is concluded that they are …

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European explorers, entrepreneurial selection and environmental thresholds

Clydesdale, Greg - In: Prometheus 23 (2005) 1, pp. 47-61

This article examines the activities of two early European explorers, Christopher Columbus and Henry the Navigator, in light of modern theories on entrepreneurship. These were Schumpeter-type entrepreneurs who revolutionised the world of trade and commerce. Their eventual success was the result...

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Collaboration and Innovation Networks in Esprit

Assimakopoulos, Dimitris; Macdonald, Stuart - In: Prometheus 17 (1999) 3, pp. 299-308

benefits for innovation, yet the very formal collaboration of Esprit is far removed from both the network links which are now … required for innovation. This paper considers what their relationship with formal collaboration might be. …

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Innovation: principles, processes and policy. a review of the contribution of Prometheus in its first 20 years

Hall, Peter - In: Prometheus 21 (2003) 4, pp. 497-508

This paper reviews the contribution that Prometheus has made over the past 20 years to the literature on innovation …, innovation policy and technological change. I offer first a necessarily subjective view of how the research literatures of … innovation and innovation policy have developed in recent decades. I then compare that account with an interpretation of the …

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Following Successfully: Followership and Technology Adoption

Hall, Peter; Densten, Iain - In: Prometheus 20 (2002) 2, pp. 87-105

Most firms in most countries find themselves taking up new technology in the wake of pioneers or first-movers. A central question is how (and whether) such firms can make a success of being followers--in the time-related sense of adopting subsequently. We take a novel approach to this question...

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